Ali Al-Bukhaiti, in his response to Yahya Afash after describing the youth of the February 11 revolution as “dangerous,” revealed Afash’s (moral) corruption and the private planes that transported mistresses to Paris, and how he turned against the republican regime.”

It seems that the serious details revealed by activist Ali Al-Bukhaiti are published for the first time about the life of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, explaining how his moral corruption caused his downfall in the February 11 revolution, as he talked about the political, economic and moral reasons for the collapse of Saleh’s regime and the rape of a girl in the presidential house’s swimming pool and the private planes that She was transporting his loves to Paris.

Al-Bukhaiti said, “After everything that happened since February 11, 2011, especially the Houthi group’s control of power on September 21, 2014, and what it is doing to Yemen and the Yemenis, many said, ‘May God’s peace be upon Saleh’ and they missed his regime. Was Saleh’s regime good? Was it viable? Did he represent the dreams of Yemenis? Who caused his downfall? “February 11 raids,” as Yahya Saleh calls them, or for other reasons? Let us answer these and other questions as calmly and objectively as we can, and through them I will address three aspects: the economic aspect, the political aspect, and the most dangerous and hidden aspect that has not been addressed before, which is the moral aspect, which in my view was the primary reason behind the cracks in the foundations of the regime and which paved the way for its subsequent downfall.

🔻Economic aspect

The conditions of citizens before 2011 were very bad. The minimum salary was less than $200. Imagine this amount was received by the soldier and the simple employee in government departments. The salary of those entitled to aid from Social Security, for example, due to their inability to work, was an amount equal to thirty dollars a month, and people were crowding in for it in the hundreds of thousands. All governorates, and it is supposed to meet the needs of an entire family. Begging filled the Yemeni cities during Saleh’s era. Had it not been for the remittances from Yemeni expatriates, the entire people would have been hungry. The gap between the general population and the ruling family and the circles surrounding it would have widened between extreme wealth and extreme poverty, and the percentage of the middle class would have shrunk and almost become extinct. Corruption was the norm during Saleh’s era, and integrity was an exception.

🔻The political aspect

“Since 1993, after the victory of Saleh and his allies in the 1994 war, democracy and the unity state agreement fell, and Saleh’s regime turned into a violent, repressive dictatorial regime against the opposition and journalists. For example, 149 leaders, writers, and activists in the Yemeni Socialist Party were assassinated between the years 1993/1994. These assassinations were directed by Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar under the instructions of Saleh and his allies in the 1994 war. Directly from former President Saleh, dozens of journalists were thrown into prisons after the war, some of them were hidden and tortured, and democracy collapsed further with every renewal of Saleh’s term and with every amendment to the constitution.

More dangerous than the above is Saleh’s coup against the republican system itself and practically transforming it into a familial system. For the first time since the success of the September 1962 revolution, the President of the Republic appoints his first-degree relatives and sons to the most important military positions, in general and without the slightest shame. After Ahmed Ali Abdullah Salah failed in a number of… The military colleges appointed him as commander of the Republican Guard, in which there were highly qualified people who held doctorates in military sciences and who had decades of experience in the field and gradually rose in their positions. Then a young man named Ahmed came to them with a parachute, and they were told that you must obey this only because he is the son of the president, and we can imagine. The situation of senior officers who served for thirty years, for example, and their shoulders, chests, and the walls of their homes were filled with medals, ranks, and military and academic certificates. Then, overnight, they were led by a young man without the slightest experience who had previously failed at the college in which he was studying in Britain.

The matter was repeated in the Central Security. Yahya Muhammad Abdullah Saleh was appointed, a young civilian who had no connection to the security or military aspects and did not hold any certificates or training courses. Suddenly, the senior officers in the Central Security Forces were forced to give him a military salute only because he was the president’s nephew.

The same family appointments were repeated in National Security with the appointment of Ammar Yahya Muhammad Abdullah Saleh, who personally supervised the filthiest torture operations in Yemeni prisons, which were not common before until Ammar entered the National Security Service and crossed all limits.

In a later article, I will write details about Ammar and what he did in National Security, how he violated the dignity and rights of detainees, and how he tapped everyone’s phones with the aim of blackmailing them later. I do not know if Ammar is repeating that now in the Sahel, and what exactly his role is and how he manages the security system, especially that he cooperates with the United Arab Emirates. The United Nations, whose scandals continue to emerge day after day in Yemen, the latest of which was published by the BBC in the documentary film prepared by journalist Nawal Al-Mahqafi, Baraa Shaiban and Hoda Al-Sarari, which proved with conclusive evidence that it hired foreign mercenaries to carry out assassinations in Aden.

🔻Ethical aspect

Considering the actions of former President Saleh himself and the stage he reached, there are many details that I received from senior officials who worked with him and were very close to him and very loyal to him. I met some of them outside Yemen, in Cairo, Amman, London, and other Arab and European capitals and cities, and their conversation reminded me of what the regime has reached. King Farouk’s rule in Egypt was based on moral decadence by the standards of the East, which was documented by the late writer Muhammad Hassanein Heikal in his book “The Fall of a Regime.” I will mention only fragments here, and they are part of a book project that I am preparing, and in which I include these documented testimonies, and I may not publish it until after he leaves. I may publish it without revealing their names, while saving a copy in which the names will be published later at the appropriate time.

My purpose of writing this article is to remind Yahya Muhammad Abdullah Saleh and all those who hold those who left on February 11, 2011 responsible for the situation in Yemen, which Yahya calls them “Al-Dang,” that they are not responsible for the fall of his uncle’s regime and his family, as this is a historical inevitability for a regime that has fallen morally and has reached the path of A dead end after he turned against all the slogans of the September 26, 1962 revolution, on which he relied and which were the basis for his legitimacy, and to prove to Yahya Saleh that those at the dawn of February 11, 2011 were not those who took to the squares, but rather the political and moral corruption and blockage that the regime of former President Saleh had reached.

Among those fragments related to the moral collapse of the regime is that former President Saleh had a swimming pool in the presidential house, and girls were brought to it on an almost daily basis. I have the names of his close circle that was managing that operation, and I even met one of those who had a relationship with the former president, who during a long conversation… With her about her and her father’s relationship with President Saleh, she broke down crying, and when I asked why she refused to talk, and after my insistence and curiosity to know the reason, she told me that at the age of seventeen she was raped by former President Saleh in that swimming pool, and what was painful about the story was that she was the daughter of one of his employees. What made her break down and cry was not the incident itself, which she had reconciled to some extent with at that stage due to her young age and weak awareness, as she consoled herself a few years after the incident as a friend of the President of the Republic, whom she saw as a role model and a great personality, and she tried to restore his image and the rape incident. Father – that it was his mistake during a moment of sexual excitement, and their relationship continued for years after that, and one day Saleh – through one of his assistants – asked her to come, and when she arrived at the pool, she was surprised by the presence of Dr. Abdul Karim Al-Eryani and another character whose name I remember now. The three of them were swimming together, so he said Saleh to Dr. Al-Eryani: What do you think about this……..? The girl’s face turned red, and the faces of Dr. Al-Eryani and his friend turned red, and they were ashamed of the situation and Saleh’s way of humiliatingly dealing with her. Neither Al-Eryani nor the third responded to him with a single word, and this point specifically, not rape. – This is what affected the girl and caused her depression and ruined her life. She recovered from the incident and tried to make herself happy because she is a close friend of the President of the Republic, but she was surprised that he looked at her as a cheap prostitute, offering her to his friends and bragging about what he was doing to her in front of them.

In the same context, Afash used the women and daughters of his opponents to undermine them and in an attempt to subjugate them, and it may be a form of attraction to the jinn. C- He has the idea that he seeks the daughters and women of his powerful political opponents whom he is unable to confront as a form of revenge, but he was also attracted to the women and daughters of his close circle who worked with him, and their silence about his practices was part of the benefit of being close to him, and there are many stories told to me by politicians and men. The state of the elders who were close to him will come time to write about it.

I will not mention names or families, and the appropriate time to publish this may come after decades, as a lesson and so that people know the reasons for the fall of regimes and states and why there were deep hatreds in the conflict with Saleh, as the situation reached the point where he “entered the country” in the Yemeni term, as he told me. Literally, one of Saleh’s senior statesmen, that is, he harmed their families, their dignity, and their honor, taking advantage of the position of President of the Republic, and his control over the security services and communications, as his nephew Ammar, through the National Security Service, was spying on the communications of many, many women, to give Saleh the opportunity to know their problems and relationships, and then penetrate into their families. Saleh used to spend an important part of his time in these stories, as he was fond of them and even addicted to them, and he used them when he met some influential figures and asked him a word or a question that hinted that he knew his weak point.

I will mention only one example of Saleh’s behavior towards some of the powerful and influential families in Yemen. He, and sometimes his son Ahmed Ali, would communicate with their daughters, shower them with money, and enter into relationships with them, helping to corrupt them. This caused a deep wound that has not healed and will not heal, and this family does not lack money or prestige. Their wives did not need money. Their brothers only sought to control their resources so that they would not escape and cause any scandal. Saleh – who was very conservative in relation to his family and daughters, and many testify to this – was actively seeking to corrupt other people’s women, close associates and adversaries alike.

The decline that Saleh and his regime have reached, from his coup against the republican regime and its transformation into a family regime, and from his entry into the “domes” of his opponents, is the reason, Yahya Saleh, for the fall of the regime, not the innocent youth dreaming of a better future who came out on February 11, 2011, before the Joint Meeting Parties took over. On the scene, they incited General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar to defect with his forces, which later led to the rift of entire state institutions, leading to their collapse before the Houthis.

The Deng, Yahya, are those who were appointed to positions they do not deserve and are not competent for. The Deng, O Yahya, are the ones who turned against democracy and the republic and sought to bequeath a people and a state to Ahmed Ali. The Deng, Yahya Saleh, are the ones who exploited the state and its security services to spy on their competitors and work to corrupt their daughters. Oh Yahya Saleh, they are the ones who brought the country to the point where girls were transported from Sanaa to Paris and other capitals on private planes to please one of the president’s sons during his visit to those countries, as he could not bear to be separated from his mistresses for a few days.

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